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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body later the body is taken long before the soul sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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